Legal Opinion
State v. Twist
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided July 21, 1987PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCOLNIK, Justice.
The defendant, Elwood Twist, appeals from a judgment entered by the Superior Court (Kennebec County), after a jury-waived trial, convicting him of two counts of rape (Class A), five counts of gross sexual misconduct (Class A), and one count of unlawful sexual contact (Class C) involving five different children, ranging in age from 5 to 17 years. He contends that 1) the indictment should have been dismissed for the failure of the grand jury to vote separately on each count, 2) the court erred in allowing an amendment to two counts of the indictment in the middle of the trial,…
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